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Happy Fun Ball
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Sometimes, horrifically dangerous objects are obvious; nasty-looking spikes, painted dark and foreboding colors, covered in Schmuck Bait, and generally like something straight from a 12-year-old's Dungeons & Dragons game. However, sometimes it looks like a cute kitten statue. Aww... nothing that cute could be dangerous. Until it comes cutely to life and uses its precious widdle claws to rip your face off. Adorably. A Happy Fun Ball is something extraordinarily dangerous that looks innocent. It might destroy the universe, or it might rip a single person to shreds while looking oh so precious. A living version of a Happy Fun Ball is a Killer Rabbit. Supertrope to My Little Panzer, "toys" that are too dangerous to be toys. May overlap with Hidden Weapons. Contrast with Nerf Arm, which is only potentially dangerous because of who uses it, and Improbable Weapon User, the one who uses it. Compare with Excalibur in the Rust, which is also about weapons that don't look like much at first (due to looking old and/or broken), and Shoe Phone, gadgets and knickknacks hidden inside innocuous objects. See also Lethal Joke Item for the video game equivalent, Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom, and The Not-So-Harmless Punishment. Not to be confused with a Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball, though it might well be one. |
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| Happy Fun Ball / int_125b1be6 | type |
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During the kung-fu spoof, the main character sends a seemingly-innocent toy robot into the room. Most of the bad-guy scientists jump out the windows, screaming. "Toy Robot? Ah! A toy robot!" (This is a reference to Enter the Dragon, where Bruce Lee uses a snake to much the same purpose.) When one of the scientists realizes it's just a toy robot, a machine gun pops out of its torso and riddles him with bullets. | |
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The Far Side; A group of gangsters are trying to pry information from a guy who's tied up. The leader says they've tried everything on him except "this little baby we simply call 'Mr. Thingy'." | |
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Guild Wars 2: The Quip and The Dreamer are a pistol and bow that leave pretty rainbow trails and shoot confetti and unicorns, respectively. They'really also Legendary-level weapons for a reason, as their stats and damage levels are ridiculous. | |
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The card game Munchkin has a card called "Duck of Doom" which immediately drops the affected player by two levels (the point of said game is to reach level 10). The card's caption reads, "You should know better than to pick up a duck in a dungeon". | |
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Child's Play is built around this premise, with a serial killer's soul trapped inside a "My Buddy"-esque doll. | |
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In the Dadgame, defeating Mecha Death earns you... a cat launcher. Which deals damage. And is the longest range weapon of the game, especially if you charge it up — the cat gets sent flying across the screen. | |
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Bleach: The Hougyoku is a simple, tarnished orb when it's first introduced. Aizen even remarks that it's strange that such a simple object could be so powerful. | |
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Jade Sinclair, AKA 'Generator', has a penchant for these sorts of things, like a Hello Kitty compact which contains insanely sharp spinning knives. Then there's Bunny Cormack, or 'Bugs', who makes pastel eggs which explode viciously when they break. Basically, if you're at Whateley, don't mess with anything the devisers come up with. | |
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The Simpsons: In one episode Prof. Frink discusses the possibility of turning a souvenir he found at the airport (a motorized ball with a toy weasel attached) into a weapon. At the end of the episode, the toy rolls onscreen; Frink panics but Homer, convinced it's just a "cute little weasel", goes to pick it up. Cut to a "The End" title card as we hear zapping sounds and Homer screaming in pain. In a slightly more literal example, a Treehouse of Horror segment featured dolphins violently rising up against humans. One of the weapons that they used was a red utility ball. They were surprisingly effective, as Kent Brockman will attest. |
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In Rusty and Co. Presti combines several apparently harmless items (including a funnel and a Bag of Tricks) together to form a deadly "Badger Launcher". | |
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Vampirella: In the 1974 story "Top to Bottom," a children's toy that looks vaguely like a high-tech 3D labyrinth game proves to be a potential world-wrecking device when used unwisely. Borderline terrifying. | |
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NetHack: Dungeons and Dragons Amulet of Strangulation shows up but it doesn't stand out quite as much; this is because you get used to being paranoid about everything in NetHack. There are musical instruments that cause large earthquakes and shoot fire and ice beams (even better than wands that do the same things, though much more rare). Anything can be equipped as a weapon but it won't hurt your opponent unless it performs damage calculations (with the exception of the cream pie: it goes "splat" if you try to hit something with it, blinding things with eyes). There's also the loadstone; small and innocuous, one of four types of grey stone items in the game, back-breakingly heavy and usually cursed if you accidentally pick it up. Tinned food is usually a good choice of sustenance, but the contents can be almost any creature you can encounter in the game, and eating some monsters isn't always advisable. Szechuan-style cockatrice is something you only try once. |
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Bridget from Guilty Gear has things such as a yo-yo and a teddy bear in her arsenal, both capable of sprouting sawblades or shooting out jets of flames. | |
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Quackerjack in Darkwing Duck tends to use these, such as robot chattering teeth -a cute amusement in other people's hands, but he's turned them into attack dogs. Hell, Mr. Banana Brain is the only mundane toy of the lot, and he's still got some pretty distressing ideas. Which become even more distressing when he is possessed by Paddywhack. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force featured the Broodwich, a delicious sandwich (in spite of having no bacon). However, eating it will forever condemn you to a hellish dimension. | |
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In the Korean horror film The Red Shoes (2005), the titular shoes look like just an ordinary pair of women's high heeled shoes, but the shoes are haunted by a murderous ghost. Whoever touches or wears the shoes is driven to insanity and murder. | |
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Loonatics Unleashed: Professor Zane markets Fuz-Zs as harmless and cute housepets. The critters are size of bocce balls, covered in lush fur, and regard their owners with puppy eyes. That is, until they're fed chocolate, at which they mutate into dumptruck-sized monsters with fangs, spikes, claws and spidery legs with an appetite for blood. The Loonatics have their hands full trying to round them up, then send them back to their desert canyon homeland. | |
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In Metroid: Other M the Little Birdie is a cute little white bird-looking creature, first seen unsuccessfully and humorously attempting to get on top of a large fruit, but turns out to be the juvenile form of a clone of Ridley, the Space Pirate general who decimated her home planet of K-2L, and had been kept as a pet by oblivious researchers until it dismembered one and escaped. Wow. Although the more perceptive players (and Samus herself) will suspect that it's not as it seems, especially with regard to how it appears to apparate behind Samus before she goes through the door into the Navigation Room, staring at her with its beady little eyes. | |
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Harry Potter: This tends to be the outward appearance of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Despite being chosen for their symbolic value, most of those Horcruxes still look fairly innocuous: a tiara, a locket, a ring, a goblet, an old blank journal, etc. The Elder Wand ostensibly allows its owner to win any duel, but its reputation has led many wizards to steal it by murdering whoever owns it at the time (hey, just because you can win any Wizard Duel doesn't mean someone else can't simply kill you in your sleep or something). Those who go to the trouble of acquiring such a powerful weapon also tend to be the type of wizards who brag about owning it, and as such they have a very short life expectancy. The Resurrection Stone is dangerous because it can't fully bring anyone Back from the Dead, so some users have been Driven to Suicide once they realise they can never truly reunite with their loved ones unless they themselves die too. On the other hand, the Stone has much more positive effects when used by someone who is already about to die and simply wants comfort from loved ones that they'll be seeing soon anyway. |
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Reaper had a foam dart gun. The key difference between this gun and any other Nerf gun is that this thing could send anything to Hell. Extra emphasis on the word anything. | |
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In the Tank Girl movie, there is a murder-ball — a harmless little metal ball but if you hold press the hidden button, spikes will come out and impale your hand, pretty much putting you out of the rest of the fight. Also can be activated by the sound of "clapping twice". | |
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Medaka Box: Unzen, an Enfant Terrible Knight Templar high school enforcer, uses actual rubber balls that are Made of Explodium. His sister uses less-fun giant metal balls on chains. | |
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In Space Cases, a girl brought on board a cute little teddy bear and gave it to a friend. It turns out that the bear is a trap that has a deadly virus on it. | |
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As expected, a lot of the stuff contained by the SCP Foundation, such as SCP-018. All but invoked by SCP-846. Lampshaded in "Things Dr. Bright Is Not Allowed To Do At The Foundation": SCP-018 is not to be taunted! And if it isn't a Happy Fun Ball, SCP-914 can make it into one. One notable example being an enhanced super ball the killed several people, destroyed entire wings of the site, and was last spotted orbiting Mars. |
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In an episode of the Earthworm Jim cartoon, a page containing a spell that could destroy the universe was, due to a grievous printer's error, placed in a children's pop-up book that happened to be owned by the protagonist. In another, the most powerful force of destruction in the universe was locked away in a snow globe. |
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Subverted in World of Warcraft with the Happy Fun Rock. You toss it to other players...and it does nothing. Really. No, really. | |
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Inuyasha: If it's a simple-looking orb you're looking for, look no further than the Shikon no Tama (Jewel of the Four Souls), which is the size of a large marble. Sealed within it are the souls of a demonic horde and priestess trapped in an eternal battle. Even a tiny shard of it can make give a demon or human a powerful upgrade, and the first time we see it it's represented as a tacky key-chain. It's eventually revealed to be the true villain of the series, manipulating even Naraku. | |
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In The Last Express, the Firebird seems to just be a golden jewelled egg with the curious ability to transform into a falcon that can sing when you play a whistle. What you don't know is that, if you do this at night, it becomes a deadly weapon... | |
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West End Games' TORG had "Conjure The Bouncing Hordes Of Doom", found in the supplement "Pixaud's Practical Grimoire". The material component for the spell was a rubber ball with arcane symbols carved into the surface. When the caster tossed the ball while saying "I invoke you", the ball would split into six armed and armored Munchkins with Speedball's bouncing powers and resistance to kinetic damage, combined with Wolverine's skills with blades AND a gremlin's sheer nastiness. | |
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In the Liaden Universe books, a Bowli ball is a ball with a gyroscopic randomizer that can send it flying off in random directions. It is used as a combination game and exercise for pilots, and has been known to lead to physical injuries. | |
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DuckTales (1987) had an item that was similar to the Power Rangers Midas Hound, but infinitely worse: a small goose idol that turned things into gold... at first. Then it started a chain reaction that was turning the entire world into gold. The golden goose was held in a magic fountain that neutralized its gold-turning powers. If the goose was taken and kept away from the fountain's water for too long, it will awaken and turn things and people to gold on its own accord. And if allowed to remain awakened for too long, the goose's gold-turning powers escape from its body, leaving it as a normal goose, while the powers proceed to turn the world to gold, referred to as "The Golden Death". The only way to stop this scenario, obviously, is to return the goose to the fountain. | |
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The Order of the Stick: "Follow the bouncing ball, children!" Said ball has a Symbol of Insanity inscribed on it. | |
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In Persona 3, there is a weapon called the "Toy Bow", a plastic bow that fires suction-cup toy arrows. During the part of the game where you get it, it's very powerful and, unlike nearly every other bow, is very accurate. However, its usefulness swiftly wanes as the game continues. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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And the Euclid Finder in Fallout: New Vegas, seemingly a harmless toy gun... which is in fact a target finder for a Kill Sat. If you decide to arm said satellite before retrieving the Finder from its current owner — a small child using it, predictably, as a toy — one of your companions may remark how incredibly lucky you were that the safety was still on. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_5ada53ed | comment |
James Bond's watches, pens, shoes, whatever. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_5ada53ed | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Disgaea 3, Princess Sapphire finds a cutesy teddy bear... laced with poison. Almaz grabs it instead. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_5c208620 | comment |
In the DCAU cartoon, he once used a literal happy fun ball, which totalled an armored car. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Chrysalis (RinoZ): In a fairly literal example, Anthony the ant has a ball-shaped pet monster whom he names Crinis. She's affectionate to him, unwaveringly loyal, but lacks self-confidence, to the point of collapsing into a quivering heap whenever he compliments her. And then something threatens him, and the ball unfolds into a furious mass of barbed tentacles made of shadow flesh, which seize surrounding enemies and hurl them into a maw of teeth that can either devour a nigh-infinite number of creatures into a dimensional stomach, or outright disintegrate them. Even though he's become accustomed to slaughtering and eating monsters, Anthony still has to look away when her "ripping barbs" blur into movement and effectively become a chainsaw. And then a later evolution gives her "spirit seeker cilia" on the ends of her tentacles, which she can drive into a creature's brain to push them over the brink of sanity... | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_5e88d233 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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One of Total Overdose's special attacks is a pinata. When thrown all enemies are lured running to it with giddy excitement. Its confetti-showering explosion is instantly deadly. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Dungeons & Dragons's original name should have been 'Happy Fun Ball: The RPG.' Killer statues, killer walls, killer floors, killer bridges, killer ceilings, killer stalactites, killer cloaks, killer bedsheets, and killer water can be found with a glance through the bestiaries. Particularly notable examples include: A cursed magical item called Scarab of Death has the form of a scarab (Egyptian-style brooch) until sustained proximity to a body warms it up, at which point it becomes the other kind of scarab (a flesh-eating beetle) and eats its way to the host's heart. Ask any veteran player about the Deck of Many Things. Doom of the multiverse, in an innocuous deck of tarot cards. The Necklace of Strangulation is a particularly infamous example, to the point where experienced players won't loot a necklace from a corpse until it's been identified. Indeed, players accustomed to the older editions of the game won't touch any item that radiates magic until they've had it examined by a sage... and even then, using an unfamiliar item for the first time is a moment of some trepidation. There is even a golem type in the Second Edition Monstrous Manual called a "doll golem." It is an enchanted child's toy that can be designed to do various different things. Common roles are either to murder the child in question... or far more amusingly, murder anyone attempting to harm said child. Ravenloft has an entire town of this trope called Odiare, where Evil Pinocchio regularly murders all the adults too old to play with him. There's also the Bag of Devouring — seems to be an ordinary sack, or possibly a Bag of Holding. It's actually the mouth of an extradimensional Extreme Omnivore. Store your magic items in it? You'll be very disappointed when you try to retrieve them. Stick your hand in it? You'd better have a damn good Grapple modifier. |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In the Rocket Monkeys episode "B.A.L.L.", the monkeys are tasked with delivering the eponymous B.A.L.L. (Ballistic and Lethally Loaded), which is an actual ball. They have to refrain from playing with it or it will explode. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_6ad64f20 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Dwarf Fortress is FILLED with these. The throwing mechanics are so broken, throwing laundry around will kill all involved, while passing Necromancers will often create an army of walking Fluffy Wambler corpses just to piss you off. And then there are the Giant Sponges — with no nervous system, the only thing they can feel is ANGER. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_6c1234ed | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Fallout 3 has "rigged baby carriages," which appear to be normal baby carriages from a distance. However, get too close and a distorted lullaby plays, along with the rather creepy sound of a baby crying. Then the carriage explodes spectacularly. The Rock-It-Launcher is a cannon that fires common cluttered junk with enough force for a teddy bear to mutilate super mutants. And the Euclid Finder in Fallout: New Vegas, seemingly a harmless toy gun... which is in fact a target finder for a Kill Sat. If you decide to arm said satellite before retrieving the Finder from its current owner — a small child using it, predictably, as a toy — one of your companions may remark how incredibly lucky you were that the safety was still on. |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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The Venture Brothers has ...The Nozzle, an innocuous yet fear-inspiring doodad that not even its owners understand the purpose of. Its engagement is accompanied by an unsettling mechanical voice warning the patient; "Do not move while ...The Nozzle is engaging. Moving will interrupt calibration of ...The Nozzle. Please do not look away while ...The Nozzle is calibrating." | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Interstellar Pig has "The Piggy", a small grinning pig statue. Cute and harmless-looking, but it's likely to destroy every planet in the universe except the one it's on when the time is right. Then the Piggy admits it made up that legend and says it only destroys the planet it's on... when it hiccups. Poor piggy, it just wanted friends... At the end of the story, the reader learns that the Piggy is nothing but a recording device that made up the stories to be passed around and record everything. It can't destroy anything — although it can teleport anything touching it away if it becomes bored. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_7094d7a8 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_77aa72de | comment |
I Wanna Be the Guy has Delicious Fruit, whose rationale for crushing you (sometimes even defying gravity to do so) is that they're "more like giant cherries" than apples. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_77aa72de | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_7aaf9e41 | type |
Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_7aaf9e41 | comment |
Batman: The Joker resorts to these all the time, when he's not directly using a clown- or comedy motif. Even then, it's pretty common he'll resort to something that actually is harmless as a fakeout, knowing people will assume the worst anyway. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_7aaf9e41 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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The "Lok-nar", the evil green sphere in Heavy Metal, had a tendency to melt the flesh from the bones of people who happened to touch it, when it wasn't busy animating corpses. Although it does glow. That should have been a giveaway. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_7e35116c | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_7f574499 | comment |
In Castle in the Sky, Sheeta's Laputan grandmother taught her the "Spell of Destruction" as a Nursery Rhyme on condition she never use it. Which she inevitably does when duly provoked by the Big Bad. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_7f574499 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_7fc78282 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: Notable in that the other rings of power are more ornate, while the One Ring is just a simple metal band whose only noticeable feature is the glowing inscription that doesn't even appear most of the time. |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_7fc78282 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Warehouse 13 gives us the Baylor Dodgeball, a fairly innocuous-looking dodgeball previously used in military training exercises. It bounces under its own power and plays dodgeball with whoever happens to be nearby. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong. First, it "throws" itself only when its victim isn't looking, so there's no chance the person will catch it without a partner. Second, it creates a copy of itself when it connects, and each of those copies acts exactly like the original. That means you'll have dozens of them in no time flat. To stress why this is bad, it bludgeoned five soldiers to death before it was caught. However, all you have to do is catch one of them and it returns to being a single, inert dodgeball. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_819b8c9e | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Girl Genius: Castle Heterodyne houses the "Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispensers", bison-sized, murderous cat-like clockworks. When the castle is fully functional, it has complete control of them. When the Castle isn't fully functional, then you'd best hope the Fun-Sized Dispensers are confined to one room and don't know you're around. The Castle also has a "Happy Fun Ball of Death" (yes, that is it's official name) on a week-long rotation — these sorts of names seem to be a running theme for the old Heterodynes. |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Cardcaptor Sakura, one of Eriol's plots involves turning Sakura's homemade teddy bear into a booby trap. The Clow cards, themselves, are Happy Fun Balls. They look harmless, but can cause destruction if they're not controlled by a magician. |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Full Metal Jacket, a Marine picks up a stuffed toy while patrolling a bombed out building in Hue. It's connected to a bomb which blows up, killing him. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_88f055ec | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Soon I Will Be Invincible, the villain Dollface is said to have specialized in innocuous-looking dolls full of powerful miniaturized super technology. Dollface herself is only mentioned, but her work — a gravity-manipulating doll to be more precise — is used in Doctor Impossible's doomsday device to move the moon at will, controlling the Earth's orbit and thus the temperature of the Earth. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Life, the Universe and Everything: a harmless-looking cricket ball is a hyperspace bomb that will destroy the entire universe when hit. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
| Happy Fun Ball / int_8c518367 | comment |
The Kentucky Fried Movie: During the kung-fu spoof, the main character sends a seemingly-innocent toy robot into the room. Most of the bad-guy scientists jump out the windows, screaming. "Toy Robot? Ah! A toy robot!" (This is a reference to Enter the Dragon, where Bruce Lee uses a snake to much the same purpose.) When one of the scientists realizes it's just a toy robot, a machine gun pops out of its torso and riddles him with bullets. The scientist makes the mistake of ridiculing the toy robot. As it shoots him, it says, "Eat lead, sucker" in a growly voice. |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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The strategy/RPG Vandal Hearts II has, in addition to swords, spears, et cetera, an entire class of "oddball" weapons like baseball bats, scythes, and so forth. Most of them are genuinely threatening, if weird...until you get the "Evil Doll," which is a simple children's doll. Wearing a dress. Not only is it one of the most powerful weapons in the game (characters attack by holding the doll in front of them by the head; it shakes once and enemies die, complete with huge gouts of blood), but it teaches its holder a spell that sets your entire party on fire, bringing horrible death to allies and enemies alike. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Superman: Toyman is basically a professional Happy Fun Ball manufacturer. In the DCAU cartoon, he once used a literal happy fun ball, which totalled an armored car. |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_8df5521b | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: The villain Baby Doll has a variety of deadly weapons disguised as toys, including a doll with a gun inside it and explosive bouncy balls. Joker occasionally uses these as well. His trademark lapel flower usually contains acid, and he's been known to use marble grenades. Also, his equally signature toy gun with a "BANG!" sign, which then fires anyway. This is eventually used to kill him in a flashback in Batman Beyond. Don't forget his lethal Electric Joy Buzzer. This one was turned against him in the Static Shock crossover when Static easily absorbed the electricity — then gave it back. |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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An episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius had Jimmy's father working as a toy inventor— between Jimmy "tweaking" his dad's gizmos (such as adding real lasers), and then one of them (a doll/tank hybrid) being weaponized and turned gigantic by Jimmy's renegade Nanobots. Hilarity, and large repair bills, ensue. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_97abe183 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Ogre Battle has Doll Mages / Masters who, while capable of throwing the dangerous Acid spell from the rear of the formation, use a marionette to attack from the front row. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Ben 10, the Omnitrix appears to most to be a regular wristwatch. It's a Clingy MacGuffin that calls up obscenely powerful monster forms for the wearer. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, the animal summoned with the Call Beast spell changes depending on your Magic Aptitude. If you have 100 then you summon a Vorpal Bunny. It looks like a regular white bunny ... except it's a level 40 creature in a game where the level cap is 50 and it has master level melee skill. When it kills someone they are always dismembered in the process. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In the backstory of The 7th Guest, villain Stauf is a toymaker who specializes in Happy Fun Balls. His beautiful toys are snapped up by local children, all of whom become mysteriously and fatally ill...so he can fulfill his half of a Deal with the Devil and steal their souls. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Gordon Freeman tries to pull this off with a hand grenade in Freeman's Mind. It doesn't work very well. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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The Tick: In the comic, one villain incapacitates The Tick with a device called "the Happy Apple". | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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The first Gaunt's Ghosts novel, First And Only, plays with this. In one scene, an enraged Ghost shoots an innocuous but blasphemous Chaos idol to pieces; one of the pieces lodges into another Ghost's skin. A while later, that same Ghost goes insane, starts shooting his comrades, and then mutates into a horrific spawn of Chaos, created by the corruption embedded into the idol's fragments. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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The Futurama episode "Mother's Day" had a younger Professor Farnsworth invent the adorable children's toy "Q.T. McWhiskers" for Mom's Friendly Robot Company. Mom subsequently turned the toy into a laser-firing death machine for the intergalactic arms market. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Planescape: Torment, one of the player's past incarnations kept a journal disguised as a pretty, dodecahedron-shaped puzzle box. The puzzle box was loaded with blades that slit a user's wrist, canisters that unleashed the fantasy equivalent of nerve gas, and other delightful traps for the would-be diary snooper. Imagine a Rubik's Dodecahedron that punished you lethally when you made a move that did not get you closer to solving it and had no visual clues to tell you when you were going the right way. Since you play an immortal with massive regenerative abilities, you are the only one who can open it. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Wizard's First Rule mentions a curse that turned all red fruit in the region into deadly poison, "because children like brightly colored things." Richard, who was unaware of this, got (more) death threats from Kahlan by innocently offering her an apple. | |
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Happy Fun Ball / int_a33d74a4 | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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MDK featured the World's Most Interesting Bomb. Toss one out, and every enemy in the vicinity will immediately march over and stare at it while it counts down before exploding, killing all of them. | |
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The Bands of Mourning are a powerful artifact left by the Lord Ruler, said to bestow all of his powers upon the user. The Lord Ruler was so powerful that he healed from being flayed, impaled, decapitated, and incinerated, and Vin estimates that if he bothered, he could have destroyed La Résistance alone, with his bare hands. The Bands are a set of simple bracers the size of a forearm, until those turn out to be fake. The real "Bands" are a statue's blunt, oversized spearhead that some evil minions don't even bother confiscating from their prisoners. | |
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The main games of the Final Fantasy franchise are filled with "weapons" that are otherwise harmless objects, with each successive instalment adding more of them. One prominent example is the original Super Ball, which appeared in Final Fantasy VI. In a game where the HP cap is 9999, this item, looking like an innocuous squishy blue ball, does anywhere from 256 to 8192 damage to all enemies when used. | |
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Near the beginning of the second Fablehaven book, the kids get sent on a brief Fetch Quest to steal a little froglike statue from a fancy house. Seth, being the Idiot Hero he is, sees a sign that says "do not feed the frog" and decides to feed it out of impulsive curiosity. Turns out that statue was a demon who'd been Taken for Granite in Sleep-Mode Size, and feeding it brought it to life... | |
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Ravenloft has an entire town of this trope called Odiare, where Evil Pinocchio regularly murders all the adults too old to play with him. | |
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Hannelore in Questionable Content has a roomba. At first, the most heinous thing it does is threaten the standing of Winslow. Then Marten comforts Hanners. The thing somehow pulls a knife, believing Marten was making a move on "its woman". Later, its Power Level climbs to 'over nine thousand!! Then it evolves, goes searching for true love. And apparently finds it. Once they outnumber us, we're doomed. |
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Mage: The Ascension's final supplement, Judgment, features a scenario concerning the ultimate fate of the universe. To avert the destruction of the natural flow of reality, the players must discover what sort of catastrophe damaged the world to this degree and the weapon that destroyed the universe once before named the First Tool... which is an obsidian hand axe of the simplest form.note However, the very final events of the story includes the First Tool becoming reunited with its spiritual counterpart, which is the concept of violence. Once restored, it can destroy the universe once again. Perhaps a subversion? | |
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Perhaps in a direct reference to the SNL sketch, Superman: The Animated Series villain The Toyman uses a happy fun ball on some Mooks that eventually moved so fast, and hits so hard that it dented the armored car it bounced against. And being Toyman, most of his gimmicks are Happy Fun Balls. | |
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In The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis introduces shiny, colourful rings that are used for dimension-jumping and thus can be quite dangerous if you don't know how to use them properly. Later on in their dimension-jumping adventures, the heroes discover a bell with a sign inviting them to either strike the bell or spend the rest of their lives wondering what would've happened if they did. As one might expect, when they do strike the bell, the kids end up releasing Sealed Evil in a Can. | |
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The climactic battle scene in Toys is built around this premise. | |
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About half of Zim's inventions in Invader Zim are harmless, cute or innocous-looking while still containing highly dangerous Irken technology capable of levelling a building. The go-to recurring example is his home defense system, which is made up of garden gnomes with Laser Eyes. Weaponized by Zim in "Hamstergeddon" when he mutates the class pet (a hamster named Peepi) into a Kaiju. Despite being a city-destroying monstrosity it's still so cute that the military has problems fighting it. |
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Robot Chicken featured the Phyllis Diller Spray & Play, a bunch of hoses coming out of a plastic Phyllis Diller head, which quickly killed all the kids playing with it. | |
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In The Rock, the opening scene is the hero and a colleague attempting to defuse a child's doll stuffed with C4 and spewing poison gas. | |
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In campaign 2 of Critical Role the Mighty Nein come across the key to The Folding Halls of Halas, the private demiplane of a powerful archmage from the Age of Arcanum, which they literally call a "happy fun ball." It contains a number of extremely dangerous creatures and traps to defend against intruders. Also time passes differently inside. | |
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Doctor Who: The Autons in the stories "Spearhead from Space", "Terror of the Autons" and "Rose". When you're facing the Nestene Consciousness, any plastic object is fairly likely to be possessed and out to murder you. Shop-window mannequins have guns in their arms, plastic flowers try to suffocate people, and someone gets eaten by an armchair. The Weeping Angels, innocent-looking statues of angels with their hands held up to their face as if they're weeping. But when nobody's watching, they spring to life and start killing indiscriminately. That's why you must never blink. Oh, and you can't ever film, draw or otherwise depict them or else the depiction will become one. Which leads to Fridge Horror when you realise that is exactly what the show itself does. And if you look into one's eyes for too long, your visual memory of it will become one and murder you from inside your brain. "Kerblam!": The villain is planning to use bombs to kill thousands of Kerblam! customers. The bombs come in the form of explosive bubble wrap, the one item common to every package, since it's the one thing no customer will see as dangerous and most people will happily pop out of habit. Some of Strax's weapons sound rather like they'd fit this, but being Noodle Implements, we never find out for sure. Although, to be absolutely frank, we're probably better off NOT knowing precisely how a 'fusion suppository' works. |
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Mythbusters used non-dairy powdered creamer in an attempt to amp up the flour burning cannon design they replicated from a web video. They later confessed that the insane fireball they created made them fear for their lives. | |
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Men in Black: When J is getting a tour of the office, he sees a small ball floating above a machine. When he touches the ball, it goes careening at high speed through the whole building, smashing windows and knocking people over before K catches it and puts it back, explaining that it had caused the 1977 blackout in New York. The ball was meant for fun, apparently an alien ambassador released it as part of a practical joke likely not realizing it would cause a massive blackout. He thought it was funny as hell. To a lesser extent, the Noisy Cricket is one as well. It looks like a child's toy Ray Gun and is smaller than J's hand ("I feel like I'ma break dis damn thang!"), but it is apparently the most powerful sidearm in the film. According to the powers that be, the Noisy Cricket was originally designed as a concealable weapon, but proved to be easily modified to the magnitude it exhibits in the movie. This was done as a form of hazing for new recruits. |
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Changeling: The Lost Changeling tokens are concealed by a Mask so as to appear completely innocuous. They're easy for a mortal to activate (accidentally or otherwise). Of course, doing so without paying Glamour means that you're going to invoke its Catch... As an example, the Blood Pennon just looks like a strip of sackcloth tied to a stick. Wave it around, however, and you can give yourself and all your allies an extra boost of combat power. Activate it without paying the Glamour cost, however, and it'll leave you drained afterwards... and it'll alert the Gentry as to your presence. | |
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The Tick is incapacitated by "The World's Comfiest Chair". (No one expects a reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus in a children's animated series...) | |
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In the Orichalcos arc of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Joey inherits a card that can fuse with a monster to create never-before-seen equipment cards. During its first use, it creates a winged gold croquet hammer with chibi wings. Turns out it has the power to send all of his opponent's monsters forward in time by a random amount. His opponent is left defenseless, which earns a raw beatdown, and the monsters only come back one by one, allowing the members of the former army to be picked off. | |
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In the Grand Finale of Justice League Unlimited, Toyman is surrounded by Parademons. He promptly shoots them with...suction cups from his Nerf gun. One beat later they explode. (No, not the suction cups...) | |
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"One of your bunnies is impaled by a stray lawn dart during a family outing!" | |
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In Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Todd brings a sickeningly adorable toy puppy to school for show-n'-tell. The puppy can be manipulated into a terrifying, twisted creature that resembles a werewolf. Joy steals the puppy, not knowing this, and is bitten by it. The puppy toy doesn't let go. | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics, books are ranged weapons—you read a paragraph or two from them and your target flinches in pain. | |
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Power Rangers Zeo had a cute little dog statue that turned out to be the Midas Hound, an artifact that turned things (and people) to gold at random. It was eventually made larger, gilded the good guys' Humongous Mecha, and then became a Transforming Mecha of its own! | |
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The Superheros Quake mod had this as a selectable power. It was activated on the player's death, which would be followed by a handful of bouncing yellow happy-face spheres bursting from the body, bouncing and swooping with diabolical laughter, and exploding lethally on all nearby opponents (and sometimes allies.) | |
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Worms has... well, there's the Banana Bomb, which explodes spectacularly; the Super Banana Bomb, which explodes more spectacularly; the Salvation Army, which explodes spectacularly; various animals, which explode spectacularly; and the MB Bomb, a large balloon, which... yeah. Liero, a real-time remake of Worms 1 in which you have lives as opposed to multiple worms, goes Serial Escalation as it allows fan-made weapons to be imported. For obvious reasons the Warhammer 40,000 and Dune mods trump the above, but one particular 'strange weapon collection' has something called the Crazy Cannon which is a bazooka that fires a small slow-moving orb. Just as you finish thinking "That was lame" it flips out and begins bouncing around the screen like Ball Kirby, WHILE rapidly spamming rockets at max charge speed for a FULL MINUTE. 90% of the time, using this clears out all land on the stage and makes everyone die repeatedly. Also will absolutely CRUSH the processor of any computer made before 2001. Thankfully recharge time is so long that it will almost never recharge during a match, so it appears to be meant as a screw you option. If your ninja rope can reach the ceiling however, it's actually possible to survive it with some bullet hell dodging skills. Oh, what I said before? Roll that up to 2003 if you pick one for all 5 weapon slots. Bwuahahahahaha! |
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The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Brainstorm has an otherwise inconspicuous briefcase that he says contains a "Malevolent Counterintuitive Pathogen." If anyone but him opens the briefcase, the thing that they least expect will suddenly appear and kill them. It turns out that this is all a lie- the briefcase is actually linked a bunch of different briefcases that each contain a single piece of a time machine that's specially constructed so as to be immune to the Grandfather Paradox. It doesn't put people off; they open it anyway. |
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The Legendary Orbs from Yaiba may or may not count, but they're still small, simple glass-like balls which holds great elemental powers within. Expecially the Raijin Orb and the Fujin Orb | |
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It's Walky! has the Power Booster Rod, which looks like a large tree branch, but could potentially destroy the entire universe. | |
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Parodied in Portal: The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. Given the chance, it seems that everything produced by Aperture Science will try to kill you. Especially if it can be found in The Enrichment Center. |
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In the Happy Tree Friends episode "A Vicious Cycle" Flippy is killed by a bolt of lightning and his soul inhabits Cub's tricycle which he uses to kill those he was trying to kill before his unexpected death. | |
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Largo's "Cool Thing" from MegaTokyo looks like a toy ball with lights and buttons. Note that the Cool Thing (TM) has not been established as any sort of universe-destroying artefact of doom, though it does emit alarmingly loud noises when provoked (what Largo does to the Thing can in no way be called "use"). |
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The Continuum Transfunctioner from Dude, Where's My Car?, a device with the power to destroy the entire universe, spends most of the film disguised as an ordinary Rubik's Cube. | |
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The Dragon Quest series gave you the option of using items such as tarot cards or an abacus to attack. | |
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The Flak Cannon from the Unreal series fires giant explosive shells with a friendly looking yellow smiley face on the front. Unreal Tournament 2004 displays the message "Player A played with Player B's happy fun ball..." whenever someone killed another player with the Grenade Launcher. The bouncing, giggling, spherical, smiley-face adorned Proximity Mines in the Chaos UT mod, included with the Game of the Year Edition of the original UT. |
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In Rakugaki Showtime you have the Smiley Ball — a doodly smiley face you throw at people. Throw it at enough people and it gets angrier and angrier looking — until it turns rainbow colored with a look of awe on its face, and becomes the most powerful item in the game. | |
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The Firefly episode "War Stories" has Zoe explain why she always cuts her apples up with a knife before eating them by telling a story from the war. They were engaged in trench warfare, and were running low on food. Their lack of food came up while talking with the enemy in the other trenches, and shortly afterwards apples started falling into their trenches. Apples with micro-grenades in them. | |
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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: The "Toys of Power" are seemingly ordinary toys that grant those with "The Gift" psychic powers. For example, a deck of cards gives users the ability to read minds, while a powerful anti-Eldritch Abomination weapon called the "Cthonic Destroyer" takes the form of a little tin robot. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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Transformers (2007): An innocuous-looking radio proved to be the Decepticon Frenzy. And the movieverse version of Frenzy is even more terrifying. When he's eventually knocked in half, what's left of him is enough to, with a bit of shifting as parts, function as a killer robot and hide as an equally innocent-looking cell phone. More than Meets the Eye, indeed. | |
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Happy Fun Ball | |
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In Keys to the Kingdom, the most powerful Key is... well, a simple skeleton key, albeit gold-colored & probably glowing impressively. | |
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Fantastic Four: The Ultimate Nullifier is about the size and shape of a cell phone, curved on three sides and flat on the fourth, with a couple widdly little protrusions. It could destroy the universe if used right, and will likely destroy the user whether used wrong or right. Contrast, say, the Infinity Gauntlet, which looks exactly like the kind of glove you would want for punching gods in the face. | |
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In the cartoon version of The Tick: The Tick is incapacitated by "The World's Comfiest Chair". (No one expects a reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus in a children's animated series...) Subverted when the Tick encounters the Infinity Ball (which looks just like an 8-ball), supposedly an "ultimate weapon". It bumped into the Tick and fell. |
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Unreal Tournament 2004 displays the message "Player A played with Player B's happy fun ball..." whenever someone killed another player with the Grenade Launcher. | |
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The magic chest in Nina's Magic Chest looks harmless with it being pink and covered in fake gems. The wish cards also look like something a kid would use. But it is addictive and can cause great damage. | |
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Transformers: There is a long history of Transformers who turn into seemingly-harmless objects, but the most famous would probably be Soundwave and his minions from the original series, who transform into a tape player and cassettes. The practical upshoot being that Soundwave transforms from something you'd put in your pocket without a second thought to a giant war machine who can deploy his own personal army from his chest. Thankfully, he has a good counterpart, Blaster, who turns into a boombox and has his own cassette army. | |
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Planet Zebeth has the "Super Happy fun slide": Enemies slide down into a hidden deep-frier, and are then served as meals in the adjacent bar. | |
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